Word: seat
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Even as council officials made outreach efforts to persuade minority students and women to run for the council, election supervisors were wrestling with phony candidate registrations, pseudonymous entries and even a group of Weld residents who wanted to share one council seat among a suite of six roommates...
Since he could find nothing in the council by-laws that explicitly prohibited a group to run for one Council seat, Price asked the six to submit a paper to him explaining their request, which he said he would then bring to the election commission, Price said last night...
...cadences of President Neil L. Rudenstine's voice over the loudspeakers, I suddenly realized what was going on: opening exercises for the Class of 2001. In a fit of nostalgia, or perhaps just the ambling curiosity of a junior who fondly remembers her days in Canaday, I took a seat on the steps of Widener and eavesdropped as dean after dean warned the first years about what to expect before the millennium was up. As I glanced around the Yard, I noticed that aside from a few people in the choirs and the band, and maybe a few alumni parents...
What seems almost certain from the doctors at the scene is that Diana was beyond the point of rescue when help reached her. Some still wonder, pointlessly, whether a seat belt would have made a difference for her as it did for Rees-Jones. He alone survives, recuperating slowly and painfully in the same Paris hospital at which the princess died. His story will be well worth hearing--when he regains consciousness and, more important, if he can recall what happened...
...imprisoned for staging a jewelry theft intended to collect $2.8 million in insurance money from Lloyd's of London. Spencer has stuck by Guppy, first supplying half his bail and later allowing the former convict to live in a house on the Althorp estate, the family's Northamptonshire ancestral seat...